Updated Bugfix + Boost Version (7/7/2025)

v0.06.7-7-25 Performance Boost

• Engine
  • Changed to Compatibility Renderer from Forward+, thus the game uses OpenGL (an older renderer) instead of Vulkan.
  • VRAM requirements down to 2GB from 4GB.
  • The 3D space has been re-arranged, the camera has been brought in with a lower draw distance on 2.5D parts of the game.  Reducing the area it renders down to under 25% of the original.
  • Lighting has been redone due to changing the renderer.
  • Many animations have been redone to account for the smaller space.
    • Character movement may still be a bit strange because it was configured for the smaller space, it will be refined over time.
• Improvements
  • Characters should have a stronger and smoother outline.
  • Music state is now saved, and should be restored correctly on load.
  • Reloading in the middle of a cg sequence / animation sequence should correctly restart the scene so that it will be viewed correctly.
• MISC
  • Grammar Fixes.
  • Game file size has been reduced to 1.9GB from 7.4 GB when extracted.

First Public Release Day! (Launch Update)

V0.06.6-30-25 Launch Public Update

• Added additional sound effects.
• Added additional music.
• Script refined in some areas.
• Some animations changed, or refined.

• Consumption of VRAM has been reduced significantly.
• Costly graphics option has been turned off in scenes where it would provide no effect, currently only active on the map.
• Save names are filled with a default 'date/time' to simplify the process of saving.

• UI:
  • You can no longer dismiss the save screen while the input screen is visible, preventing a soft lock of the game.
  • Textbox name and quick button now should correctly hide anytime the textbox forcefully needs to hide.

• NAVIGATION:
  • Gymnasium exit no longer points to the main hallway and instead to the right hallway.

• QUEST:
  • An event trigger in the livingroom that could be activated improperly has been changed so that activation will only occur at the proper time.
  • Players who have saved outside the gymnasium after the event triggers before completing the investigation of the next location, and would be stuck from finishing the investigation, their location will be set to the Gymnasium upon loading.
• BACKEND:
  • Reset data to defaults when returning to the title screen, fixes data persisting through starting a new game.
• SAVE / LOADING:
  • Loading specific CG / event sequences, would not have their animation state set correctly on reload. This should now be corrected.
  • Upon loading, the textbox is dismissed instantly to prevent displaying the wrong text.

Download Links

Release Day! It's here!!

v0.06.6-15-25 Launch Update

• Fenton Works
• Casper High

• A very bombastic intro with many pieces of art for you to enjoy.
• Two ‘lewd’ scenes, although the background are still works in progress.

• History
  • Features non-animated portraits of characters, some currently missing, but allows you to review the dialogue of ‘scenarios’ you’ve experienced.
• Keybinds
  • H: Hide textbox
  • F1: Show FPS / Performance Statistics
  • X: Advance dialogue
• Rollback
  • Was not natively implemented into Dialogic, so a custom solution had to be coded.  It is not as advanced as Ren’py’s version, but during a ‘scenario’ (when a dialogue box is present) it will allow you to hop back in conversation up to 60 lines.  
  • Currently to prevent bugs, when an ‘event’ (internal record of various story points) threshold is crossed that ‘event’ will restart and clear the current rollback saves.
  • It is also disabled during more ‘cinematic / cg’ scenarios, because of animation glitches currently.
• Save / Load
  • Saving / Loading is available at all times, but in the middle of an ‘event’ on load you will restart that event.
  • Saves are nameable, and contain other information about the current status of the game that is displayed on the UI.
  • Saves are also ‘prefixed’ with the current date, then time, and then version under which they were originally created. 
  • This allows them to be organized, at the bottom of the save / load page you will see the ‘prefix’ currently selected, clicking on that will bring up a drop down menu showing you all saves sharing that ‘prefix’.
  • To preserve compatibility between versions and to fix bugged saves, the loaded data is processed beforehand to examine and fix logic bugs.
• Settings
  • There are a wide range of UI customizations available.  Including changing the background color / text color / outline color, the font used for dialogue, the font used for some UI pieces, and then a third font option used in other parts of the game.
  • Display settings are limited but will be expanded.
  • Gameplay options available are only for the battle preview mode, accessed on the title screen.
  • Also are sliders to control the overall volume, sound effect volume, ambient volume, music volume, and a special type of ‘music’ referred to as songs.  Songs are used to provide more fine control of the music to us as creators.
• Animated Characters
  • Spine, a mesh based animation tool, rigged character portraits are currently in the game, although currently their feature set is extremely limited.
• 2.5D world
  • Godot allows us to have the characters position themselves along the z axis (depth) along with the traditional y (up/down) and x (left/right).  This gives us a lot of creative freedom.
• Prototype 3D map
  • A prototype version of the intended city map has been made in 3D, and will continue to be updated with customized assets in the future.  This semi-isometric map currently only covers a small part of the city, but more will be added in the future.
• Prototype Battle System
  • From the title screen, a preview of the current direction for the Battle System is available to be tested.  It is not completely representative of the desired balance, community feedback will help drive its advancement so it will help fulfill your fantasy of fighting as Danny.
  • There will not be direct leveling, but as the main scenario progresses further there will be a natural strengthening of Danny’s abilities.
  • Consumable Item Crafting will be part of the game and a way to even the odds in challenging battles. 
• Prototype Phone
  • Unlocked in the game, but currently not very useful, the phone will be your hub to interact with the game world and also have bonus content.
• Custom Event System
  • Flexible event system that should lead to easy debugging of any logic errors, and keeps code related to it isolated from the dialogue of the game.
  • For player’s it will be completely invisible, but will open the doors to having a smooth experience while exploring the Dark Dimensions world.
• Custom Navigation System
  • Our navigation system allows the smooth integration of characters / pickable items into the various locations of the game.   They will only show up when the conditions in the game are correct, usually by time / quest / main scenario progress.

What Should You Expect on Friday... (READ!!)

Important Staff Member News (READ!)

Dani Fenton/Phantom Special Preview (AND IMPORTANT LAUNCH DATE ANNOUNCEMENT!!)

Good Friday to all of you ghouls and gals out there, looking forward to the first launch update. We've been working hard to get stuff locked in for you all to see and have a smidgen to play with in our exciting new venture. We actually have some pretty interesting developments I know you'll all want to hear about, so please, READ THE ENTIRETY OF THIS POST OR JUST JUMP TO THE SECTION THAT SAYS "ANYWAY..." FOR THE IMPORTANT UPDATE.

First off, to help ease you guys into the prospect of the big news we're dropping in this post, we wanted to show off Danielle "Dani" Phantom to our ever developing cast of characters. Dani, as I'm sure some of you know, is well appreciated and respected in the Danny Phantom Porn-iverse a bit more than she ever really has been in terms of the show. A literal chromosome swap clone of our main man Danny has just the ripest potential for taboo kink factor, it sorta writes itself. She's basically the classic sophomore season "Let's make an inverse gender version of one of the main protagonists" maneuver, tried and true as ever. But that doesn't necessarily necessitate that the trope itself can't bring with it a cool aspect in character and story beat. We think our version of Dani has a lot of really cool underlying potential, and will be explored out a much greater degree than she ever really was.

Some of you may be wondering "Well, I know this is SubscribeStar, and you guys can get away with a lot more, but how are you going to tackle her whole... small demeanor aspect?" Well, as you can see, while we did want to maintain Dani's original petite, almost surfboard-esque proportions, we did in fact age her up. Both in terms of in-canon story elements, and proportions. How did we do that? Well we've got a big arcing narrative with time and stability issues, and it'll all in pretty good detail, explain how we get from the little shorty Dani to the grown up Dani you see in this preview. And she is still one of the shortest characters, coming in at around 4 foot 10 inches, so she'll still look quite diminutive.

I could probably go ahead and explain some of the actual details of her hero version and her civilian uniform. For clarification btw, these images are NOT what her actual character portraits will look like in-game. These are basically just some "Enhanced Sketches", to help serve as style guide and design outlines for when we eventually do need to bring her in, either in CG scenes or the actual story. So that's why they'll look a little "off" and maybe a bit too dynamic, if you compared her side by side with another character portrait. So, with her hero design, we wanted to incorporate the notion of going asymmetric with her design. We think that with her nature as a character who has struggled and has worries about her stability, being a clone made essentially of science goo and all, that she'd have a bit more practice of shape shifting than Danny or Vlad, closer in essence to somebody like Desiree in that respect. So we thought her outfit should have this kind of "all over the place" nature that isn't as symmetric as Danny's uniform. The original show version sorta had this same principle in mind, but obviously with that "Poochie the Dog" look, with the baggy pants and the "I'm with it and hip, yo!" sorta attitude in her design. We think the look we gave her is altogether familiar but also gives it a fresh new coat of paint, especially considering it's more mature in design (check out those side slits!). One element I really liked was the exposed shoulder on only one side, helping really sell uneven and lopsided theme.

Dani's hair in both designs is actually a bit more "downward and sharp", which I also think helps sell the sorta darker tone and more "badass" look, as though she's been through stuff when she's in hero mode, but also makes her look like a messy and cute dork when she's human. Speaking of, her civilian look is also a bit different from her "cool kid on the block" look from the show. She clearly just wants to wear what's comfortable for her, so shorty shorts, ankle socks, a polo (possibly a dress shirt, I just think that's a sexier idea?), and an oversized zip up hoodie with sleeve gloves. Part tomboy goober, part "Please be patient, I have autism", which, if you know what we're planning with her character, I think makes sense! We also changed out her red beanie in exchange for a red baseball cap, because we thought it made for a cuter tomboy aesthetic, and also, we already swapped out Tucker's beret for a red beanie, so we thought we shouldn't overcrowd hat types. I think it's a good change, she looks like your typical weirdo "cousin" who shows up on your door step and starts eating your snacks.

Anyway...

The short of it is: Stray Dream Games is Delaying the first launch update release of "Dark Dimensions" about two weeks from the promised "Latest" date of "end of May".

...by about Two Weeks. Friday, June 13th. 

Mark the calendars people, we've got an OFFICIAL, official release date for this fucking bullshit. Friday the 13th, June, around the afternoon, right at the start of the weekend, for $15 Wet Dreamer members. Just over a month out. Now, why is this happening? Well, cause we're sorta behind, in general? And that's on us, and that's bad of us, and you should be critical of us for that. We apologize for that, and we're sorry for making you guys deal with that. We hope two weeks out from the "latest" time we promised (end of May) isn't tooooo bad, but we get that it's annoying. But this is intended to be an actual proper scheduled date, and we'll look like right assholes if it's not at least by that weekend. The other reason is, specific to our coder extraordinaire team member, Epadder. See, he does a majority of all the crazy cool effects, actual code work, creation of the builds, as well as all the portraiting and scene work. What you actually PLAY and DO in the game? That's all that guy. And right now, he's going to be out of the Dark Dimensions workspace for about two weeks! Because he also now works with our fearless team leader, Lostraven, on a separate project we've advertised for here before, Parasite Black. So he needs an additional buffer to help finish his work there, as well as here. More or less, it's just a scheduling issue, and again, we hope this isn't tooooo disheartening. We'll understand if it is though, I'd be sad not being able to see these bad toon ladies get all nakey and shit too.

So you guys remember, we'll have early access to the launch update for members who pledge more, and approximately how many singular dollars you give, is how earlier you get the link before it goes public. So if you pledge $15, $10, $5, etc., you'll receive access to the update that many days earlier before public release. We'll have the public release on June 28th, and that will serve as the first "End of Month" release, which will be a bugfix and perhaps whatever new amount of content we generate in 15 days. Then, from that point on, we'll have additional end of month updates EVERY SINGLE MONTH, unless something stupid happens. That's the plan, and we're sticking to it. The updates might not be big "Story updates", but we're trying to get in the habit of monthly updates, even if it's just script corrections or updating expressions and other smaller but additional art assets.

Also, the actual update? It should be known that it will absolutely be a WORK IN PROGRESS. Don't contribute to gain early access expecting a super polished and complete package, like we may have wanted the launch update to initially be. We're working to get there, and we'll be showing off the level of polish we want to ACHIEVE with the game, via the art and the play feel, but it won't be perfect. Always keep that in mind, and feel free to pay for you own bills over our gooner shenanigans. Rome wasn't built in a day, and we're not expecting the team to be able to all quit their day jobs overnight. But to those that do contribute, you shall be exalted as the kings and queens(?) you are.

So, I think that's more or less it? I'll be around for any questions, just feel free to either leave a comment either here, or personally DM me, or submit a question in the "Ask a Dev" channel on Discord! Also, what did you think of Dani's new outfit? Are you excited for her debut in the game? As a bonus treat and way of saying "We're sorry", here's a preview of some of Mayor Connie's expressions, thanks to FraMe. She's got a great bounce to her!

Later, enjoy your weekend, expect some more cool stuff and news soon!

-Morah & the SDG Team